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Bjork

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews.
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Believe Interview Spirit
And then within the past 10 years Iceland discovered the stock market and it just went, went, went, went, went. I think it hit a roof and it’s just crashed. Just a small percentage of the nation did a lot of damage.
BJORK

Crashed Discovered Nation Percentage Roof
Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it’s always going to be there.
BJORK

Country Healthy Iceland
You’re a coward if you don’t stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
BJORK

Coward Something Stand
If travel is searching and home what’s been found, I’m not stopping. I’m going hunting.
BJORK

Found Home Hunting Stopping
I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.
BJORK

Evening Morning Up Wake
I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan – I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible.
BJORK

Biophilia Done Strange Trying
I guess I’m quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
BJORK

Guess Understood Used
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
BJORK

Chemistry Song Sound
People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.
BJORK

Course Looks People Silly Walk
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.
BJORK

News Political Reading
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
BJORK

Scientists Singers Songwriter
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
BJORK

Getting Hands High Hunting
I’m no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment
BJORK

Buddhist Enlightenment Hope
We’re always mourning things that have died. It’s a bit much sometimes. These studios have no fresh air, and there’s this unwritten rule that they don’t have windows, either.
BJORK

Either Mourning Unwritten Windows
All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.
BJORK

Criminals People Vampire

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